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v Patented July 11, 1893.

(No Model UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES HRD, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA..

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 501,277, dated July 11, 1893.

Application filed February 25, 1893. Serial No. 463,750. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, CHARLES HUED, a citizen of the United States, residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1, represents a front elevation of my refrigerator, with a portion of the lower doors out away. Fig. 2, is a vertical central sectional view, taken at the line 2-2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a transverse, sectional view, taken at the line 3-3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4, is a vertical central view, taken at the line 4 4, Fig. 2. Fig. 5, is a side elevation of the bottom portion of the refrigerator, showing portions of the sheet metal lining. Fig. 6, is a plan view of the same. Fig. 7, is a detached portion of one corner of the refrigerator, taken in section, at line 7-7, Fig. 1; and Fig. 8, is a transverse section, taken at the line 8 8, Fig. 7, looking down.

The object of my invention is to make a refrigerator in which the sheet metal lining of the cooling or provision chamber extends entirely to the front of the refrigerator, and is tight, so that when the refrigerator is washed out and cleaned, the water will not run through into the woodwork at the bottom of the refrigerator.

My invention consists in extending the bottomV board of the cooling chamber of the refrigerator to the front of the refrigerator, under the door-opening, and also extending the sheet metal lining over the front edge of this bottom board of the refrigerator, and at the same time turn its edges up on the sides of the cooling or provision-chamber of the refrigerator, so that there will be no places for the water to run through, but will all run out of the refrigerator through the door-opening on the sheet metal lining of the floor of the cooling-chamber, all as hereinafter described and made the subject matter of the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a refrigerator made with an ice-box, B, and a cooling or provision-chamber, C.

D, is the door of the ice-box; E, the door of the cooling-chamber.

F, is the floor of the cooling-chamber. It extends under the door, E, from the front of the refrigerator to the back board, G, of the refrigerator. Its front edge rests on the front bottom piece, H, of the refrigerator.

I, is the sheet-metal covering or lining of the bottom of the cooling-chamber -of the refrigerator, and extends over and under the front edge of the iioor, F, of the refrigerator, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 5, and is turned up on the sides, at J -J and at the back of the cooling-chamber, as shown at K.

L-L, are upright stops, against which the door strikes, and they rest upon the sheetmetal lining I which covers the Iioor F of the cooling-chamber, and this sheet metal lining also passes through a scarf, M, cut in the front upright pieces of the refrigerator, so that there is no opportunity for the Water to run into the bottom of the refrigerator, but

must all pass out over the front edge of thek floor of the refrigerator.

I have manufactured alarge number of refrigerators covering a period of many years,

and one of the great objections to refrigerators has consisted of the trouble, whenever the cooling-chamber is washed-and it should be frequently washed to keep it clean-of doing so without the water running through into the woodwork at the bottom of the refrigerator, and causing it to mold, and afterward to decay and produce objectionable odors. I have sought to overcome this objection, and in doing so I have found a good deal of difficulty in making the refrigerator herein shown and described, but I make it by first making the front and sides of the refrigerator, and then taking the bottom portion, represented in Figs. 5 and 6, and putting it in place from the rear of the refrigerator, sliding the front edge of the floor F out through the door-opening of the cooling-chamber, and then putting on the back pieces of the refrigerator afterward, or the back pieces of the refrigerator may be attached to the bottom portion which carries the iioor, and putting it in together from the back side of the refrigerator in its place. I am enabled in this way to coverthe bottom of the refrigerator with sheet metal lining, and with its edges turned up on three sides, the other side extending forward over the front edgeof the floor,- and turned under IGIl it, as shown, thus making a complete Watertight lining for the bottom of the cooling chamber of the refrigerator.

I thus make a refrigerator which has a cooling-chamber that can be readily cleaned with Water without wetting the Woodwork of the bottom portion of the refrigerator.

The door of the cooling-chamber eloses tightly upon the sheet metal covering or lin ing of the oor of the cooling-chamber, and the shape of the other portions of the door to make it tight when closed may be constructed in any of the usual Ways. I Construct the other portions of the refrigerator in any of the Well-known Ways, and need not particularly describe them here.

Having thus fully described the construetion and operation of my invention, what I claim isl. The floorof the cooling-chamber extending to the front edge of the door opening of the eoolingehalnber; and the sheet metal 1ining, covering the entire fioor, turned up on three sides of the refrigerator, and extending over and under the front edge of the floor, making a Water-tight lining at the bottom of the cooling-chamber of the refrigerator, substantially as specified.

2. The sheet metal lining I at the bottom of the cooling-chamber of the refrigerator turned up on three sides of the eooling-eharnber, and extending under the stops on the sides of the door of the refrigerator, and through a scarf in the front pieces at the sides of the door of the refrigerator andalso over the front edge of the floor of the refrigerator to prevent the water from running off of the sides of the lining under and around the bottom of the door-opening of the refrigerator, as specified.

CHARLES IIURD.

Witnesses:

G. W. KEYES,

ERNEST W. HURD. 

